Auckland, NZ: Unity Press Ltd., 1967. 3rd Edition. Soft cover. 8vo (medium). Tan wrappers lettered in red on front cover, 74pp, with [12] plates of B&W photographs, and numerous in-text line drawings depicting artifacts and Maori and Moriori lifeways. Wrappers sunned, lightly foxed, a small tear at foot of spine..... More
Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1960. First Edition. Soft cover. 12mo. Orig. and illustrated stiff wrappers, 112pp. Some notes in pen and purple marker, light staining to wrappers with wear to spine and extremities, but o/w very good. A collection of words and music, actions and instructions of traditional and..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1967. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth, xxxii, 359pp. Frontispiece, incl. 16 plates (recto & verso).Small rubber star stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise fine in a near fine but slightly soiled jacket along the front edge. An analysis of the 'medicine murders' in 1945-1946, magic and..... More
London: International African Institute, 1962. Soft cover. 8vo. Ethnographic Survey of Africa, edited by Daryll Forde. Western Africa Part VIII. Reprint. Orig. green card wraps, glued binding. 100 pp. B&W fold-out map tipped in to inside rear cover. Light creasing to covers, toning to spine and edges, damp stain to..... More
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Creme cloth with primitive figures on lower front board, xiv, 303pp. Illustrated. About fine in a very good but sunned dust jacket. More
Boston: Pearson, 2012. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to. Soft Cover, xviii, 284pp. Fine. A thorough examination of early written evidence of state and society, as well as perspectives on the transatlantic slave trade, linguistics, decolonization, anthropology & more. More
New York: Arkana, 1991. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Volume I of The Masks of God. Soft cover. xv, 504 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Fine. More
Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 1941. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. maroon cloth. xxi, 236 pp. Colour frontis. w/ tissue guard. Copiously illustrated in B&W. Spine cocked, bruising to corners, a few small spots of soiling. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar. More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full orange paper boards. Some discolouration to front board, light bruise to spine foot. Dust jacket is chipped to spine ends and foot of front cover, light edge wear and a few short tears. An explorer probing the frontiers of..... More
London: Anthroposophical Publishing Company, 1950. Soft cover. 8vo. xx, 151 p.p. Paperback. No jacket. Translated from French. Foreword on Rudolf Steiner bu S. Rihouet-Coroze. Browning to spine and cover edges. Some browning and staining along front cover. Otherwise clean, a very good copy of book. More
New York: Doubleday, 2004. Soft cover. 8vo (crown). Pictorial soft cover, xi, 150pp, illustrated with [46]pp of B&W photos. Fine. More
London: Routledge Classics, 2003. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. xxxix, 194 pp. Spine sunned. Light age toning to interior. Natural Symbols is one of the most important works of modern anthropology. First published in 1974, the work presaged many of the most controversial areas..... More
London: John Murray, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (crown). Burnt orange cloth lettered in black, re-back with original spine laid-on, ix, 214pp, with 17 plates incl. frontispiece, plus line-drawings in text, owner names on front free endpaper, boards faded, some bruising at lower corners of front boards, otherwise very good.Scarce..... More
Hamden, CT: Archon Book, 1977. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (crown). Revised and Enlarged. Green cloth, 235pp, frontispiece, bookplate on front free end-paper. Fine. More
London: Watts & Co., 1932. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. 12mo (small). Thinker's Library No. 26. Abridged edition. xii, 244 pp. B&W illustration in text. Spine tilted. Dust jacket chipped to spine foot, sunned to spine, with reinforcement or repairs to spine head and upper corners with stamp-like stickers. A first-hand..... More
London: Watts & Co., 1934. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. 12mo (small). Thinker's Library No. 42. Orig. brown stamped cloth. xiv, 146 pp. B&W illustration in text. Spine tilted. Dust jacket has minor chips to spine head, sunned to spine. An interesting and informative record of the steps by which our..... More
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London: The Hakluyt Society, 1992. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. blue cloth, sailboat device to front boards. cxxviii, 327, 26 pp. B&W illustrations; vii, 328-916 pp., 27-57 pp. B&W illustrations. Small bruise to fore edge of rear board to volume I with corresponding perforation to jacket..... More
London: Published for the International African Institute by Oxford, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original jacket and black cloth. xvii, 160 p.p. [5] plates of photographs, incl. frontispiece. A study of the concepts of disease in the social life of the Safwa of Southwest Tanzania, and their beliefs on sorcery..... More
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1943. Hardcover. 8vo. Full red cloth. Map endpapers. xx, 416 pp. Numerous duotone illustrations in text. Very light chafing to spine ends. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar to front pastedown. Dust jacket is price clipped, lightly edge worn. Newspaper article about Hoffman's death laid in..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. xxii, 266 pp., [16] pp. B&W photos. Spine sunned, small chip to tail edge of front cover, bruise to rear joint. Awarded the 1978 Wellcome Medal for Research in Anthropology by the Royal..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. green cloth. 349 pp. Dust jacket lightly edge worn, ring stain to rear cover, else fine. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Full red paper boards. 272 pp. Principal photography by David Brill. Fine. In 1974 in a remote region of Ethiopia, Donald Johanson, then one of America's most promising young paleoanthropologists, discovered "Lucy," the oldest, best preserved skeleton of any erect-walking..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., 1892. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV. Orig. red publisher's cloth. vii, 365 pp. Spine sunned, damp stained and worn to spine foot, chipped to spine head. Stain to head of front board, chafing to extremities. Bookplate..... More
London: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1971. Soft cover. 8vo. Royal Anthropological Institute Occasional Paper No, 31. Orig. green card wraps, glued binding. 55 pp. Light creasing to covers. Embossed ex libris stamp of Jack Lieber to ffep and ink inscription reading "University of Ibadan, 1971" inside..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1929. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. green pebbled cloth, gilt titles. viii, 453 pp. Light rubbing to extremities. Offsetting to endpapers. Else fine. More